FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008

Today is Friday, April 25, the 116th day of 2008. There are 250 days left in the year.

1507 _ Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America

1719 _ Daniel Defoes publishes ``Robinson Crusoe"

1859 _ Ground broken for Suez Canal

1867 _ Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

1881 _ French troops occupy Algeria and Tunisia

1886 _ Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna

1933 _ U.S. and Canada drop Gold Standard

1938 _ First use of seeing eye dog

1976 _ Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country

1993 _ Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader